Improvement in folding tables



UNIT D. STATES PATENT QFFIOE.

( HIRAM BALDWIN, OF NASHUA, NEW HAMPSHIRE.

IMPROVEMENT IN FOLDING TABLES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 168,124., datedSeptember 28, 1875; application filed February 20, 1875.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, HIRAM BALDWIN, of Nashua, in the county ofHillsborough and State of New Hampshire, have invented a new andvaluable Improvement in Folding Tables and I do hereby declare that thefollowing is 'a full, clear, and exact description of the connature ofthe invention and improvement consists in the construction andarrangement of the parts, as will be hereinafter more fully described.

In the annexed drawings, A designates the platform of a table, which ispreferably of rectangular form, and B B are the legs thereof, mortisedor otherwise suitably secured to their respective rails ab, which railsare journaled into blocks 0, rigidly secured'in any suitable manner tothe under side of the platform A, as shown in Fig. 2.

Legs B B, when they are folded inward, present the appearance shown inFig. 2, and do not in any way interfere with each other, owing 'to thefact of blocks 0 not being in line with each other, one of the legs, B,being received between those B of the top rail (1, and the other outsideof the same.

D indicates brackets of right-angular form,

and preferably of metal, each having a lip, 01, and perforated lugs, e,which brackets are pivoted by means of a rod, 1, to rails a b, as shownin Fig. 1. Lugs e are recessed into rails a b, and rods 4 are thenpassed vertically through them into and through the perforations in thesaid lugs, the brackets being thus endowed with a vibratory motion inrespect to rails or b, so that when the legs of the table are placed insuitable position for sustaining the table-top A, brackets D may bevibrated outward into a position at right angles to the rails a b, whenlip d will become engaged with a recess, f, cut in the inner edge of astrip of wood, E, preferably extending across the under side of platformA, and rigidly secured in any suitable manner thereto, as shown in Fig.2. By this means legs B B are effectually held against inward vibration,and a reliable table is produced, possessing, in addition to its foldingproperties, a degree of rigidity equal to that of tables whereof thelegs are permanently attached to the top.

In practice I propose to use one or more of these brackets, as I mayelect, for each rail.

What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

In a folding table, the brackets I), having a lip, 01, and lugs e, incombination with the rails a b of folding legs B B, and the'recessedstrips E, substantially as specified.

In testimony that I claim the above I have hereunto subscribed my namein the presence of two witnesses.

, .HIRAM BALDWIN.

Witnesses:

HENRY B. ATHERTON, EDGAR G. DAMON.

